2024 Best Public Administration Schools in the Southeast Region
85Colleges in the Southeast Region
3,743Public Admin Degrees Awarded
Public Administration is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #49 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 85 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of public administration. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 3,743 degrees in public administration during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of public administration school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Public Administration School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Public Administration Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Public Administration in the Southeast Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the public admin degrees they offer, see the list below. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
It's difficult to beat Virginia Tech if you wish to pursue a degree in public administration. Located in the small city of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is a public school with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #62 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Virginia Tech is a great school overall.
There were about 44 public administration students who graduated with this degree at Virginia Tech in the most recent year we have data available.
George Mason University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in public administration. GMU is a very large public university located in the large suburb of Fairfax. A Best Colleges rank of #117 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means GMU is a great university overall.
There were about 118 public administration students who graduated with this degree at GMU in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Florida International University if you wish to pursue a degree in public administration. FIU is a very large public university located in the large suburb of Miami. A Best Colleges rank of #183 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means FIU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 262 public administration students who graduated with this degree at FIU in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat Clemson University if you want to pursue a degree in public administration. Located in the suburb of Clemson, Clemson is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #107 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Clemson is a great university overall.
There were about 45 public administration students who graduated with this degree at Clemson in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the midsize city of Athens, UGA is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #72 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UGA is a great university overall.
There were about 81 public administration students who graduated with this degree at UGA in the most recent year we have data available.
Auburn is a fairly large public university located in the city of Auburn. A Best Colleges rank of #154 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Auburn is a great university overall.
There were roughly 60 public administration students who graduated with this degree at Auburn in the most recent data year.
UNC Chapel Hill is a fairly large public university located in the city of Chapel Hill. A Best Colleges rank of #43 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UNC Chapel Hill is a great university overall.
There were about 60 public administration students who graduated with this degree at UNC Chapel Hill in the most recent data year.
NC State is a fairly large public university located in the city of Raleigh. A Best Colleges rank of #92 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means NC State is a great university overall.
There were about 41 public administration students who graduated with this degree at NC State in the most recent data year.
Located in the fringe town of Orange Beach, Columbia Southern University is a private for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #114 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Columbia Southern University is a great university overall.
There were about 129 public administration students who graduated with this degree at Columbia Southern University in the most recent year we have data available.
UCF is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Orlando. A Best Colleges rank of #193 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UCF is a great university overall.
There were about 222 public administration students who graduated with this degree at UCF in the most recent data year.
Located in the medium-sized city of Tallahassee, Florida State is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #121 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Florida State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 59 public administration students who graduated with this degree at Florida State in the most recent year we have data available.
WCU is a fairly large public university located in the town of Cullowhee. This university ranks 17th out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were about 86 public administration students who graduated with this degree at WCU in the most recent year we have data available.
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Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of public administration school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Public Administration School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
